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Our field trip to the farm is this Thursday, April 26th. Please be sure to send your child to school with a completely disposable lunch with your child’s name written on the bag. We will not be transporting lunch boxes to and from the farm. Please do not send any food which contain peanuts. Remember to check the weather and dress your child appropriately, as we will be outside walking around all day.  We look forward to having a great time at the farm!

Reminder —

Tomorrow is the first grade market day and the children will have an opportunity to go and shop. Everything costs .10 cents to $1.00. They will have items for sale such as slime, pencils, erasers, and more. If you would like your child to participate in this activity, please send in money in an envelope or baggie labeled with your child’s name.

Thank you!

It’s time for the Dime challenge!

This week, we are continuing our endangered animal adoption project. We are reusing milk jugs to collect money for adopting a wolf through the Detroit Zoo, and we need your help!

We are asking for your help with our “Coins for a Cause” challenge.

Bring in as many extra dimes as you can to help fill our jugs! At the end of the week, we’ll count up the totals and announce our winners!

Did you know???

A wolf pup’s eyes are blue at birth. Their eyes turn yellow by the time they are eight months old.

The children won the lunch room challenge this week and were able to enjoy popsicles as a reward! Great job to everyone for working hard during lunchtime to follow the rules and clean up.

Upcoming Events

4/24 First Grade Market Day

4/26 Field Trip to Domino Farms

4/27 -4 Math Facts Quiz

4/27 Spelling Test: from, went, him, cub, rub, sub, tub, club, stub, shrub

4/30 PBIS Celebration (Art in the Park)

5/4 -5 Math Facts Quiz

5/4 Spelling Test: they, come, his, good, jam, yam, ram, clam, slam, swam

5/11 -6 Math Facts Quiz

5/11 Spelling Test: jump, down, her, eat, tag, wag, bag, rag, flag, brag

5/18 -7 Math Facts Quiz

5/18 Spelling Test: first, next, last, will, grin, crab, clip, shark, twig, flat

5/24 -8 Math Facts Quiz (This is the last Math Quiz!)

5/24 Spelling Test: king, sing, wing, ring, ding, sting, thing, bring, swing, spring (This is the last spelling test!)

Agenda for the Week

Spelling Words for our next spelling test on 4/27: from, went, him, cub, rub, sub, tub, club, stub

Plus a bonus word which will be one of the following words: shrub, scrub

These words will be in the homework which will come home on Monday after break!

Reading and Writing: This week we focused on long and short vowel sounds and identifying which is which by sound and sorted words with the long vowel sound. We continue to sound out words and have been focusing on digraphs such as th, ch, sh, ph, and wh.

Math: The children took their – 3 math test today! Next week, we will focus on learning -4 math facts. Our test will be on Friday, April 27th.

Science: We continued our ocean unit by learning about animals who live in the ocean. We are working on many crafts in order to turn our classroom into an ocean. The children are loving doing all of these crafts and learning facts about ocean animals. This week we also had the opportunity to look at shells, seahorses, puffer fish, and even a shark jaw which were leant to us by Mrs. Lahooti. We were so grateful to have time to look and touch all of these interesting shells and animals.

We made angler fish last week and learned about how they live in the midnight zone. This week we created a midnight zone photo booth to have some fun taking pictures in front of. This will still be up on June 1st when all of you are able to come in and see our ocean classroom and you can take pictures as a family!

We learned about how whales use echolocation. We did a simple experiment to demonstrate how sound can bounce off of objects in order for the children to better understand echolocation.

Social Studies: This week we began talking about democracy. We thought about how we are able to vote to make decisions. We thought about what we know about American symbols, such as the flag. We also talked about what we think the president’s job duties are and for what he is responsible. We will continue to discuss these topics next week.

Housekeeping Items:

Money: Please make sure to send money in an envelope or baggie labeled with your child’s name and what the money will be used for. Thank you for your help!

Spelling booklets: Please be sure to return these promptly on Tuesday!

Snack Time

**** Due to a peanut allergy in our room, please do not send in any snacks that contain nuts.*****

Folders

Please make sure to empty the green folders each night! It is very difficult and time consuming to locate homework or important notes when the folder is full of papers from the day before. Remember to initial the communication log and feel free to add any notes to me!

It’s time for the Penny/Nickel challenge!

We are continuing our endangered animal adoption project. We are reusing milk jugs to collect money for adopting a wolf through the Detroit Zoo, and we need your help!

We are asking for your help with our “Coins for a Cause” challenge.

Bring in as many extra coins as you can to help fill our jugs! At the end of the week, we’ll count up the totals and announce our winners!

Did you know???

A single wolf can eat up to 20 pounds of food in one sitting!

Market Day is all about determining wants and needs, producing goods and services and trading. Family and friends are invited to help celebrate the world of producers and consumers by shopping at our market from 9am-11am on Tuesday, April 24 th . All goods will range from .10 cents to $1.00. All Haigh students will have the opportunity to shop at our market, so if your child would like to purchase something, please send them to school with money. Hope to see you Tuesday!

Thanks for your support,
The First Grade Teachers

We had tons of volunteers to chaperone the field trip. Thank you for all of your participation! We did our lottery this afternoon and two parents names were drawn from a big fish bowl. I have sent a note home in the green folder to the parents whose names were chosen. Thank you all for volunteering and for being so understanding that we cannot always take everyone with us on the field trips.

Have a great weekend and see you all on Monday!

We had a fun week this week as we began our ocean unit! The children are excited about our learning and I am too!

The scholastic book order for this month is due on Tuesday, April 17th. Our last order will be in May. No order for the month of June. If you need books for the summer, I would be happy to give you your child’s current reading level and suggest levels for the summer. It is important to continue reading all through the summer in order to help them stay prepared for first grade!

Upcoming Events

4/16 Picture Day

4/17 Scholastic Book Order Due

4/17 Oceans in Motion assembly

4/20 -3 Math Facts Quiz

4/20 Spelling Test: little, have, us, dog, log, jog, hog, blog, frog, clog

4/25 First Grade Market Day

4/26 Field Trip to Domino Farms

4/27 -4 Math Facts Quiz

4/27 Spelling Test: from, went, him, cub, rub, sub, tub, club, stub, shrub

4/30 PBIS Celebration (Art in the Park)

5/4 -5 Math Facts Quiz

5/4 Spelling Test: they, come, his, good, jam, yam, ram, clam, slam, swam

5/11 -6 Math Facts Quiz

5/11 Spelling Test: jump, down, her, eat, tag, wag, bag, rag, flag, brag

5/18 -7 Math Facts Quiz

5/18 Spelling Test: first, next, last, will, grin, crab, clip, shark, twig, flat

5/24 -8 Math Facts Quiz (This is the last Math Quiz!)

5/24 Spelling Test: king, sing, wing, ring, ding, sting, thing, bring, swing, spring (This is the last spelling test!)

Agenda for the Week

Spelling Words for our next spelling test on 4/20: little, have, us, dog, log, jog, hog, blog, frog

Plus a bonus word which will be one of the following words: bog, clog

These words will be in the homework which will come home on Monday after break!

Reading and Writing: This week we focused on decoding words by using letters and letter sound which make sense. In addition, we used picture clues to help us read unknown words. Sometimes the children look only at the first word in a letter and then guess at what it is, rather than using their reading skills to look at the entire word and sound it out. Please make sure your child is trying words on their own before you help them with the word while reading at home.

Math: The children took their – 2 math test today! Next week, we will focus on learning -3 math facts. Our test will be on Friday, April 20th.

Science: We began our ocean unit by learning about the ocean zones. We learned about each zone and the animals which live in each zone. Then we began learning about animals. The children are especially interested in the creatures which live in the midnight zone such as the blob fish and the angler fish. We made an angler fish craft and read a story about the blob fish and other creatures from the midnight zone. We also began learning about sharks. One of my students from last year came down and shared his passion for ocean animals since learning about them last year and read shark stories to the children. He also shared his report from last year and the model he made. It was great for the children to get pumped up about ocean animals from another child.  We also made an octopus craft and have begun turning our classroom into an ocean!

Social Studies: This week we reviewed rules and what it means to be a good citizen.

Housekeeping Items:

Money: Please make sure to send money in an envelope or baggie labeled with your child’s name and what the money will be used for. Thank you for your help!

Spelling booklets: Please be sure to return these promptly on Tuesday!

Snack Time

**** Due to a peanut allergy in our room, please do not send in any snacks that contain nuts.*****

Folders

Please make sure to empty the green folders each night! It is very difficult and time consuming to locate homework or important notes when the folder is full of papers from the day before. Remember to initial the communication log and feel free to add any notes to me!

Today a permission slip came home for the farm.  Please read the chaperone note carefully. Due to limited space, we are only able to take TWO parents with us. If you are interested in chaperoning, please fill out the form and send it back. On Friday, I will do a lottery and pick two slips out of a hat. Those two slips will be the parents selected to attend the field trip with us. Unfortunately, we will not be able to accommodate any other parents on this trip.

The cost is $13 and the money and permission slip are due by this Friday, April 13th. Please be sure you turn in both, together in a baggie or an envelope labeled with your child’s name.

Exact cash only.

Thank you!

HAPPY SPRING BREAK!!!!

Please put your child on prep dog to help prepare them for our upcoming testing in May.

https://www.prepdog.org/

PLEASE PUT YOUR CHILD ON READING EGGS AND MATH SEEDS EACH NIGHT!!!! This is a great way to supplement and support their learning!

I have made two new videos to help support your child’s learning at home. I will post them below and you may find them under the “How-To Videos” tab on our main page.

Upcoming Events

3/30 – 4/8 NO SCHOOL!!! SPRING BREAK!!!

4/13 -2 Math Facts Quiz

4/13 Spelling Test: where, out, now, sip, lip, dip, slip, ship, chip, grip

4/16 Picture Day

4/17 Scholastic Book Order Due

4/17 Oceans in Motion assembly

4/20 -3 Math Facts Quiz

4/20 Spelling Test: little, have, us, dog, log, jog, hog, blog, frog, clog

4/25 First Grade Market Day

4/26 Field Trip to Domino Farms

4/27 -4 Math Facts Quiz

4/27 Spelling Test: from, went, him, cub, rub, sub, tub, club, stub, shrub

4/30 PBIS Celebration (Art in the Park)

5/4 -5 Math Facts Quiz

5/4 Spelling Test: they, come, his, good, jam, yam, ram, clam, slam, swam

5/11 -6 Math Facts Quiz

5/11 Spelling Test: jump, down, her, eat, tag, wag, bag, rag, flag, brag

5/18 -7 Math Facts Quiz

5/18 Spelling Test: first, next, last, will, grin, crab, clip, shark, twig, flat

5/24 -8 Math Facts Quiz (This is the last Math Quiz!)

5/24 Spelling Test: king, sing, wing, ring, ding, sting, thing, bring, swing, spring (This is the last spelling test!)

Agenda for the Week

Spelling Words for our next spelling test on 4/12: where, out, now, sip, lip, dip, slip, ship, chip

Plus a bonus word which will be one of the following words: grip, rip

These words will be in the homework which will come home on Monday after break!

Reading and Writing: This week we focused on middle sounds using short and long vowels. This helps the children to read and write by decoding words more easily.

Math: The children took their – 1 math test today! Next week, we will focus on learning -2 math facts. Our test will be on Friday, April 12th.

Science: When we return from break we will begin our ocean unit!

Social Studies: When we return from break we will begin learning about democracy and rights.

Housekeeping Items:

Money: Please make sure to send money in an envelope or baggie labeled with your child’s name and what the money will be used for. Thank you for your help!

Spelling booklets: Please be sure to return these promptly on Tuesday!

Snack Time

**** Due to a peanut allergy in our room, please do not send in any snacks that contain nuts.*****

Folders

Please make sure to empty the green folders each night! It is very difficult and time consuming to locate homework or important notes when the folder is full of papers from the day before. Remember to initial the communication log and feel free to add any notes to me!